Good news for outgoing Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen this week. On Monday the City Council voted to add $75,000 to the Office of Arts and Culture in 2016 to help fund the initial planning process for an AIDS Legacy/Memorial.

Also, Rasmussen's office confirmed that there will be a $75,000 match in more --------------------------------------------------

At a Seattle City Council budget committee meeting November 16, Councilmember Tom Rasmussen opposed a proposal by his colleague Kshama Sawant to fund a study to explore creating an LGBT community center.

Sawant's measure would have instructed the Seattle Parks Department tmore--------------------------------------------------

Seattle Police Department officials began work on a Transgender specific policy in late 2013 that would govern how officers deal with everything from traffic stops to body searches of Transgender people in Seattle. Earlier this year, SPD, in cooperation with several members of the locamore --------------------------------------------------

Transgender Day of Remembrance ceremonies to be held in Seattle, Bellevue and Edmonds
The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is a day set aside to remember and honor Transgender persons who were murdered in the last year. Sadly, this year has seen a marked increase in the number of such hate-motivated crimes. The Puget Sound Transgender community and its allies gather to remember those who were taken from us at ceremonies armore --------------------------------------------------

'The legislation is aimed to better protect workers, deter and penalize bad actors while leveling the playing field for businesses that are already in compliance,' the Maymore --------------------------------------------------

George Pieper, president of Seattle LGBTQ Community Development, was 'disappointed but not deterred' by the Seattle City Council budget committee decision not to explore ways to create an LGBT community center.

Pieper has spent seven years working to build a new LGBT communitymore--------------------------------------------------

United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 21 has announced that its largest employee insurance trust, Sound Health and Wellness, will now include full medical services for Transgender union members.

UFCW 21 is the largest private-sector union in the state, with 44,000 memore --------------------------------------------------

The provision in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) excluding Transgender individuals may be unconstitutional, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on November 16, and courts should ignore it to avoid legal problems.

The ADA protects people with disabilities from dmore--------------------------------------------------

Hillary Clinton won two big endorsements this week, getting the support of Jim Obergefell, plaintiff in the historic marriage case Obergefell v. Hodges, on November 16 and the endorsement of the huge Service Employees International Union (SEIU) the next day.

Ukraine finally passed a law protecting its LGBT residents from discrimination in order to win the right for Ukrainians to travel freely in the EU, but less than a week later, France proposed that the EU scrap its open borders policy.

After six tries, and only two days after vmore --------------------------------------------------

In the wake of a new report on STDs from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) called for increased funding to combat what it called an 'STD epidemic.'

The CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published November 13 shmore --------------------------------------------------

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